Pacific Fibre

By Tim Norton | Apr 30, 2010

Pacific Fibre Aims to build high-capacity, undersea fibre cable connecting Australia, New Zealand and the USA. We aim to make fast, inexpensive, unlimited broadband a reality, unleashing the potential of New Zealanders and Australians.

Accelerate 2010 – The Business development event of the summer

By Tim Norton | Dec 7, 2009

The business development event of the summer is shaping up to be in the sunny Hawkes Bay on Wednesday February 17.  Local legend and global marketing guru Andy Lark are doing a full day with business owners wanting to accelerate their business. When & How: Wednesday Feb 17 – Register Now! This will be tight [...]

MinuteDock Time tracking – Turn your time into Money!

By Tim Norton | Dec 1, 2009

A pretty cool Time tracking tool called MinuteDock has recently launched out of Wellington and it plugs beautifully into Xero so it makes it faster and easier than ever to, turn your time into money! If you charge out your time, and are familiar with super simple social media tools like twitter, then you’ve just [...]

Wellington Xmas Party on a Boat

By Megaatron | Nov 18, 2009

Last Christmas, threw a huge boat party to end a massive year for everyone. This Christmas, we’ve hooked up with Summer of Code and to throw a Xmas party at Tugboat on the Bay. Its shaping up to be a great night, starting with meeting in the Beach Bar from 6.30pm, a yummy Christmas dinner [...]

Brand New Zealand on Cover of Inc Magazine

By Tim Norton | Oct 1, 2009

The world’s easiest making system – Ponoko and CEO , have taken their business, Wellington and brand New Zealand to the front cover of Inc Magazine in this months global edition in an expose titled The Future of Manufacturing. The headline says it all – and Dave, Derek and the crew at Ponoko are carrying [...]

10,000 Businesses on madefromnewzealand.com

By Tim Norton | Jul 29, 2009

Over the last 9 months we’ve been pumping along promoting and connecting New Zealand Business and have just in the last week hit 10,000 Businesses on madefromnewzealand.com. We have dished out over 50,000 outbound links/leads to member websites, with quality visitors coming from the US, Australia, UK, China and more. I chatted bright and early [...]

The Friday Show Episode 7

By Tim Norton | Jun 19, 2009

From digging a 50 metre fern sculpture on Oriental Beach to the Job Summit, The Friday Show Episode 7… Sorry so late on this and behind on posts, so many good things happening in the community, stories from people & businesses I’ve been told about and haven’t covered on here, my apologies, as much as [...]

Xero raises $23 million from strategic investors

By Tim Norton | Apr 8, 2009

Just weeks after publishing the hockey stick that shows online accounting software Xero hitting the 6000 customer mark to close out the financial year, today Xero CEO announced the successful raise of $23.2 million in capital that sees the addition of key industry player and ex MYOB founder Craig Winkler as an investor injecting $18 [...]

Richard Taylor Weta Founder World Class New Zealander 2009

By Tim Norton | Apr 4, 2009

Richard Taylor creative director and founder of Weta Workshop and Weta Digital wins the supreme World Class New Zealand award this week. The most important characteristics to create success in order Passion Enthusiasm Tenacity Talent

John Key Awesome Speech at World Class New Zealand Awards

By Tim Norton | Apr 3, 2009

Prime Minister John Key had everyone cracking up as he pulled out an inspirational 15 minutes Wednesday night amidst a fantastic evening last night at the World Class New Zealand Awards, hosted by Stephen Tindalls Kea and NZTE with some amazing New Zealanders being recognised for their contribution to New Zealand and helping take New [...]

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